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...They can't leave home without us," quips Donald Richberg, coordinator of the program. Following an initial outlay of $100,000, the project has cost the county only about $10 a day per probationer. The anklets have been tried in at least eight states since New Mexico introduced electronic monitoring in 1983. The cost accounting looks favorable, but technical gremlins have been showing up too, resulting in reports of false disappearances or failures to report real ones...
...issue of the season: amid heavy media coverage and enthusiastic public fanfare, Congress provided overwhelming bipartisan support for tough new antidrug legislation. Eight days before the election, the President signed a bill raising federal drug-fighting funding by $1.6 billion, to $3.9 billion, proudly proclaiming that the outlay "reflects the total commitment of the American people and their Government to fight the evils of drugs...
Harvard claims that the costly external capital improvements were necessary, yet many seem entirely cosmetic. The sudden large outlay for improvements was certainly increased by the repairs being long-overdue, a result of systematic long-term neglect, about which tenants challenged Harvard University 10 years ago; timely repairs would have been less costly. From the figures presented by Harvard Real Estate to the Rent Control Board it is clear that Harvard Real Estate is well able to meet all its operating expenses for the building at the current rent rates; even the recent external capital improvements would be absorbed...
...written message accompanying the proposal, Healy said, "The budget, as proposed, recommends funding of operating programs at existing levels of service, while significantly increasing our capital outlay...
...stop the arms race, they will 1) blow the world up or 2) simply sink below the Rising Sun from the burden of their arsenals. And even as huge forces grow less practical, many other nations are dragged into the arms competition. In 25 years the annual global outlay for arms has gone from $400 billion to $940 billion. The cost now exceeds the entire income of the poorer half of humanity...